Basket liner



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BASKET LINER Application filed November 23, 1929. Serial No. 409,387.

This invention relates to a basket liner, and

it is an object of the invention to provide a liner of this kind for use in packing fruit and the like having removable means coacting with portions of the liner to hold the same against expansion, the liner beingso constructed, when said means is removed, as

to permit expansion of the liner.

The invention also has for an object to provide a liner having removable means coacting with portions of the liner to hold the same against expansion, said means permitting its removal to be effected'when the liner is full without disturbance of the content therein, the liner, when said means is removed, being so constructed as to permit expansion of the liner.

An additional object of the invention is to provide a liner constituting a substantially endless wall and which is provided from end to end with a fold or plait to permit expansion of the liner.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of our improved basket liner whereby certain important advantages are attained: and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient. and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of our invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that our invention may be the better understood, we will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a liner construct'ed'in accordance with an embodiment of our invention, the means for holding'the liner against expansion being omitte v Figure 2 is a View partly in section and partly in elevation showing the liner supporting its content without independent support, the basket being diagrammatically indicated I by broken lines in partly applied position;

Figure 3 is a View pa-rtly'in'section and partly in elevation showing a filled liner within a shell or tub and mounted upon a facing form;

Figure 4 is a view in plan of a blank from which the liner is formed;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view taken through our improved liner and the adjacent portion of a coacting shell or tub; v

Figure 6 is a fragmentary elevational view illustrating a liner constructed in accordance with a furtherembodiment of our invention; and a Figure 7 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 7-7 ofFigure 6.

' As illustrated in Figures 1 to 5 inclusive, our improved liner L comprisesa sheet of paper stock or other suitable material having its grain a disposed in a general direction lengthwise of the liner to afford a strong wall not liable to breakage and which gives to the liner a natural tendency to readily open or spread out, thus facilitating the application of the liner in working position within a tub or shell.

- The liner L may be formed from a blank as illustrated in Figure 4 but the extremities of the blank are connected, as at 1, by a suitable adhesive or otherwise as may be preferred whereby is provided a substantially endless. wall. The liner, at a desired point thereof, is folded, as on the dotted lines I: in Figure 4, to provide a fold or plait 2. The

intermediate ply 1.0 of the fold is providedwith the openings 3 which register with the openings 4 in the outer plies d of the fold or plait 2. As illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 a substantially rigid elongated member 5 is threaded through the registering openings 3 and 4 whereby the linerL is held against ex pansion which-@would be allowed upon removal of the member 5. the member 5 is of a length, when applied, to extend beyond an open end of the liner L so It is to be noted that I that said member 5 can be readily removed when the liner is full without the disturbance of the content of the liner..

While we have particularly referred to the openings 3 and 4 we wish to state that these openings may be produced by forcing the member 5 through the material.

shell or tub S with an applied liner L is placed thereon. Before the liner L is positioned within the shell or tub S it is held against expansion by proper application of the elongated member 5. After the applied liner and shell or tub have been filled with manner and fruit, the shell or tub is removed. The liner possesses suflicient strength to hold its content in columnfree of any independent support.

An inverted basket is then applied over the filled liner and after the basket with the liner and its content has been upended, the member 5 is removed thus freeing the fold or plait 2 so that said liner and its content may readily accommodate itself to the size of the basket and thus assure both a firm package and a filled basket.

It is to be noted that the openings 3 and 4: are so positioned to assure a holding of the fold or plait 2 against expansion throughout substantially the height of the liner.

While it is of advantage to use the member 5 we have found that under certain conditions the internal pressure of the weight of the content of the liner will serve to hold the fold or plait and thus prevent expansion of the liner until after it has been received within the basket. v

The embodiment of our invention as illustrated in Figures 6 and 7 is substantially the same as that comprisedin Figures 1 to 5 inclusive except that the end portions of the "blank of the liner L are connected by a strip or tape 6v of a stock lighter than the liner L proper, This strip or tape 6 is preferably adhesively attached. As particularly illustrated in Figure 7 the desired fold or plait is obtained by causing the extremities of the blank of the liner to overlap whereby the strip or tape 6constitutes the intermediate p'ly of the fold or plait. The fold or plait in this embodiment of our invention is adapted to have an elongated member 5 en aged therewith for the same or the same ipurposes as the member 5-referred to in the of our invention as herein disclosed.

From the foregoing. description it is i thought to be obvious-that -a basket liner constructed in accordancewith .our invention is particularly well adapted for use by-rea son of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and employed,

and it will also-be obvious that our inyenciples and spirit thereof and for this reason we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out our invention in practice except as hereinafter claimed.

We claim As a new article of manufacture, an ended as to provide expansion of the linensaid rod permitting itsremoval to be effected when the liner is full without the disturbance of the content therein.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures.

. JOHN S. RICE.-

JAMES W. TREW.

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